Bug#702762: "More or less" dead upstream

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Bálint Réczey <balint at balintreczey.hu> wrote:

> From the email [1] on the VLC list I had the impression that
> libpostproc is broken.

That is my understanding as well. That's why I wanted to hear from you
XBMC needs libpostproc for. Did you notice any visual improvements
from enabling the libpostproc filter in XBMC?

> If it is working fine I don't see why it should be dropped and I'll
> keep libpostproc support in XBMC, too.

Well I kept it around to not break the compilation of existing
programs. And that part seems to be ok-ish.

> I have looked into the source more closely and it seems using a very
> hidden setting
> XBMC users can pass postproc filters to libpostproc thus I can't
> replace it with vf_yadif.

vf_yadif is certainly no drop-in replacement, as it has a totally
different API. This replacement may require significant knowledge of
the codebase.

> So if libpostproc will stay with us could you please upload it to
> wheezy-backports to let me upload xbmc, too?

Is this really necessary? What's the problem with the libpostproc-dev
package provided by libav 0.8 in stable?

http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libpostproc-dev


Reinhard